Is root level conftest.py still recommended?

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I am not sure how but I am in this situation where pytest is going through all my source checkouts and picking up all their root-level conftest.py files and then errors out. Should I move the conftest.py file one-level down in the code tree and be done with it? I vaguely remember you recommend a root-level conftest.py but that was a while ago. Or is there another solution to ask pytest not to do this?

my_source_checkouts/
    package_1/
        conftest.py
        package_1/
            (codes)
    package_2/
        conftest.py
        package_2/
            (codes)

$ cd my_source_checkouts/package_2
$ pytest package_2/blahblah/tests/test_file.py
ImportError while loading conftest 'C:\...\package_2\conftest.py'.
_pytest.pathlib.ImportPathMismatchError: ('conftest', 'c:\\...\\package_1\\conftest.py', WindowsPath('C:/.../package_2/conftest.py'))

I am using Git Bash on Windows 11, hence the weird path formatting in the message. Same problem with pytest 7.1.2 and 7.0.x.